Introduction to Raspberry Pi

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The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit card sized, single board Linux computer. If you have outgrown your Arduino this is a great, cost effective, next step. A Raspberry Pi with Ethernet, Wifi adapter, 4GB storage, enclosure and power supply is less than the cost of an Arduino Uno and Ethernet Shield!

Class size is limited to 8 students.

With this class, you will receive:

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B - 1GB RAM

8GB SD card

Power supply

This class covers:

Loading an OS onto your SD card
(this may be a handout due to time constraints)

Raspberry Pi first boot with monitor, keyboard and mouse

Basic network configuration via command line

SSH via Putty

Raspberry Pi first boot without monitor, keyboard and mouse

Basic file system structure, permissions, and basic commands

Updating and installing new software on your Raspberry Pi

Downloading files and software from the web to your Raspberry Pi

Other things you can do remotely with your Raspberry Pi
(surf the web, Tweet, read email, chat, turn things on/off…..)

Requirements:

Bring a Laptop computer with WiFi

Things to bring to class if you have access to them:

Spare USB keyboard and mouse

HDMI LCD monitor (Composite RCA input will work)

An installed SSH client (For Windows users Putty is nice)

Specifications of the Raspberry Pi:

900 MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU

1GB RAM

SD card slot for storage(and OS)

Wired 10/100 ethernet on board

Four USB 2.0 ports

3.5mm audio jack

Composite RCA (PAL and NTSC)

HDMI (14 resolutions available)

On-board UART, I2C, SPI, GPIO

1080p, h.264, MPEG4

Multiple Linux distros are currently available (including Debian, ChromeOS and Android)

Notes on the Raspberry pi:

If you’ve wanted to dip your toes in the Linux waters this is an great place to start.

Low parts count. You only need the Raspberry Pi board, an SD card and a cheap power supply to build a web enabled project or server. **You probably have an SD card and old cell phone power supply laying around already that will work.

The level community support for this board and the available tutorials are amazing. A lot of people have donated alot of their time to make your experience with the board fun.

I have a Raspberry Pi. My friends are jealous. What do I do with it now?